HOLDING A DJOURN ED SESSIONS
... THE reasons assigned by the woithy chairman of our Quarter Sessions, for holding them mote fre- quently, appear to us quite cogent. The first consideration is that untried persons should be detained for as short a time as possible. It is an old principle of British law, that justice should not be delayed and it is a gtievous hard- ship for an innocent man to be in pti*on. The question of ...